[speaking foreign language] >> we have a teaching and learning working group -- [speaking foreign language] >> -- a logistics working group -- [speaking foreign language] >> -- and a personnel working group. [speaking foreign language] >> these working groups will gather information and use tonight to make a recommendation to the school board. [speaking foreign language] >> as you can see, these town hall meetings are a critical component. [speaking foreign language] >> next slide. as you can see from this next slide, this is our mission for the district. [speaking foreign language] >> our mission is every day, for each and every student. [speaking foreign language] >> we provide quality instruction and equitable support so that they can thrive in the 21st century. [speaking foreign language] >> this is important because it guides how we will make a decision regarding learning in the fall. [speaking foreign language] >> next slide. as i've shared, these town halls are part of an ongoing learning process that we've engaged in as we figure out how to best meet our mission during this time. [

[ speaking in foreign language ] what was she like? >> soccer. >> reporter: an athlete at heart, her family tells us, marathons were her passion. and even from a young age, one thing was clear. vanessa's sense of duty to her country, the place where she was born and raised, the united states. high school prom? [ speaking in foreign >> reporter: she knew at 10 years old she wanted to go to the army? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: when she turned 18, she signed with the army. you didn't want her to go. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: she would eventually be assigned to ft. hood, just hours away from her home in houston, the place where glor they raised their six children. but then came that horrific day, april 22nd, when vanessa suddenly disappeared. her father tells me that same afternoon he felt a pain in his heart, something was just not right. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: what do you think it was? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: vanessa had vanished without a trace. her fami

so mr foreign minister then let me. just let me ask you about another case where everything does not appear to be above board we also have to mention this high profile case which is currently ongoing that your health minister who would fire this month for inappropriate conduct after he was accused of illegally awarding a multi-million dollar contract for covert $1000.00 medical supplies and just to give a reference point these masks were apparently costing the government $28.00 per mask there's been public uproar over this he's facing 15 years in prison if convicted will your citizens see real consequences well that is exactly the testimony all for how the the corruption drive in this country is because he has been arrested and he has been charged and therefore it means. and what at least. no no no no it's not being caught and released remember this just in this country he's going to appear in court and of the of if it is going to be presented and then it would be up to the judiciary. to convict him or not but that's ju

foreign leader then he got. was the head of the chemical branch of the cia there was a logical that when the cia needed poison or any purpose including killing a foreign leader he would be the person they were turned in it was sydney got the. poison that was supposed to have been used to poison the chinese leader joe and why that plot was thwarted later on fidel castro became the target and it was godly who created all those elaborate devices you read about not only made the lp deal that the phrase i learned while reading the file i wish dealt ill else as for lethal or help it was a little kill you he made those for castro but he also made things like a poison fountain and with an ultra fine so he wouldn't feel if it went into your leg he made a poison wetsuit so that if castro put another and we need a way to get him alive you think none of the plots were successful then when the cia decided at the order of president eisenhower to assassinate patrice lumumba the prime minister of the congo not only did godly ma

he served as foreign policy advisers for members of the senate and house including only foreign relations committee -- including on the foreign relations committee. here to joinof you the conversation with #atpride. if you are on the zuma platform, you can also submit questions &a function. ater, we will have discussion. before all that, i will turn to you, mr. deputy secretary. greetings to all of you today. let me start by thanking you for your warm introduction and many years of friendship. thank you, jeff, for all of our colleagues here today. years, it has been instrumental in advancing the for department of state employees. american values of equal treatment for every person with respect, decency, and equality under the law. i welcome the opportunity to join you all here today for an engaged discussion on advancing persons.r lgbti i served on the board of freedom house years ago and it is my privilege to continue these efforts in the united states government, working to protect the rights at the heart of our american foreign policy. the united states probably advances our efforts ar

foreign service because unbelievably my foreign service class was about 50 people. it was half and half. half women, half men. i was just at the swearing-in ceremony for the latest foreign service class, and that was not the proportions. it was like, i don't know exactly what it was, but it was markedly -- the overwhelming majority was male. when i asked about that, i was told just wait for the next class. the next class is going to be different. i am hoping that's true. i think in terms of numbers, we still need to work at that. and then i think when you look at where women are in structure department, and not just the state department come in general, there is a willing out. some of it is self elected because women are the ones who take care of family issues, whether it is children from a parental issues, whatever it might be. that privilege, that burden falls more on women than it does on men, so how can we as leaders, when we think about that, how can we make that easier for all people? not just ones who have a completely supportive network back home so they can

more than 400 foreigners were involved in the cultural revolution. their sons and daughters known as the red children were given a communist education and as teenagers were drawn into the revolution their lives are a missing page in an otherwise well known chapter of chinese history. the story of the red children begins with that of their parents during this tumultuous period of the 20th century they left their homes with the dream of helping to found a new china. for someone say. my father was born into an upper middle class jewish family in england. 2 but in 1028 my grandfather's business failed and he went bankrupt. was in my father moved to china 938 ounce to reading the book red star over china and he was impressed with the actions of the chinese communist party you got don't . read start over china depicts mao tse dong as a hero aims to save the poor man pursue social equality for the masses. stablished the base of the revolution in a remote part of central china. in an era when poverty and persecution were spreading throughout the world mao's

for foreign students that were made kind of hands and essentially they said that if foreign students were go in to be studying online and morris had an online only course that's for the false master and they would not be able to do that while maintaining their their student visa status here in the u.s. now i know harvard and mit have already said they're going to sue the trumpet ministration i mean this could really mean the mass deportation of say all u.k. students from the united states. well i mean that was certainly what i had put in their direction of that they issued a essentially last foreign students that we're going to be attending online only courses with a few options and i don't think any of the options are grace and the 1st is leave the last 2nd to try to scramble to transfer schools and a few weeks' notice assuming they can find a course in a school that is not online only and force the schools to to go on to kind of change from online only to in person or face deportation so they're the options that they were left with the law it is to say that harvard's and mighty hav

in the name of public health and safety they've rounded up illegal foreign workers. when you look at these riots you can't help but think is the practical reality of dealing with a pandemic or is it racism. we're treating them like animals this is not the way to treat a migrant worker he's a little way. human. but you know they're living. with bill but i didn't go to get that i know my so. when i went to east investigates why so many foreigners a baby is locked up in malaysia it's locked down. while them pools migrant neighborhoods around to see which any identified as areas with high infection rights have been locked in behind bob wire and barricades. this is part of malaysia's response to coded 19 across the city people are being taken from their homes fingerprinted tested for the disease and shit it's a valid documents those without them swiftly taken away. from the shops a lot of what's going on. we're not allowed inside they spend ferrets. but phone footage from local residents gives us a glimpse inside the crackdown. shortly after one ride i speak with true mig

as you young foreigners wanted to form a team of their own. since you say you know our parents encouraged us for so we built up a youth group for. youth group. the washerwoman even though we were teenagers we wanted to be critical as well. michael crooks like other chinese teenagers believed in the political ideals of the cultural revolution at the time young people always carried a little red book called quotations from chairman mao tse tung. that provided an introduction to his ideas and thoughts about the communist party and was originally published by the people's liberation army in 1964. during the 10 years of the cultural revolution an estimated 1000000000 copies of the little red book were printed and sold in china together with the selected works of mao to dong it was regarded by mao's supporters as one of the treasured read books. at school and in the workplace everybody read it. miles thoughts had infiltrated the public consciousness. in the summer of 1966 a series of events was organized to advertise the cultural revolution the rall

states foreign policy. during my time onthis committee , we have experienced pivotal moments that underscore the significance of the billions we allocate for foreign assistance to advanced american values and promoting freedom and democracy and to support development and security around the world. on september 11, nearly 3000 americans lost their lives including some of my constituents who perished on the sacred ground where the twin towers once touched the sky. we need look no further than our mask and space eating to recognize we are living through another such moment. coronavirus has claimed a staggering 540,000 lives worldwide. including over 100 31,000 americans and is another stark reminder that circumstances and events half a world away can have serious consequences here at home. the foreign assistance bill embodies our common belief in the absolute necessity of effective global engagement. this is not only a moral imperative, supports the safety and security of all americans. as i risk reflect on th

and as being the foreign secretary. and as being the foreign secretary. great day for justice for sergei magnitsky and justice all around, because it does not just apply to this and justice all around, because it does notjust apply to this case but all other atrocities around the world. it is not and specifically at russia or russian individuals, but globally. and do you think this form of targeting punishment on individuals and human rights cases is actually going to be effective? it's extremely effective. it is effective for several reasons. first of all, by going after the individuals you can tenure to trade with these countries and have diplomatic relations, but express in a very real way your displeasure with what they are doing on an individual basis. and we also know that it works because we have seen how angry some of these dictators and torturers and murderers get. vladimir putin and his single largest foreign policy priority to repeal the act and he's been trying for many years and coming after me and others because he angry about it. ina and ot

foreign nationals from 129 countries and regions are currentlyy denied entry into th country due to the the pandemic. it also applies to foreign nationals living in japan who are only allowed to re-enter with special permission. >>> now, over in the united states, the trump administration has reversed a plan to pull visas for foreign students whose classes will be exclusively taught online. >> i felt t like there's a hugu sense of relieief, and i felelts huge amomount of bden n just go or takenen away. >> the big win is a quick win, but i i would d say that theher lot t to be e done. and i'm going toakake this d da to celebrate it, a and then tomorrrrow i might wake up andne what else there is. >> the flip-flop comes about a week after u.s. immigration authorities announced the new policy for the september school year, the first since the pandemic began. it would have forced foreign students to leave the country or transfer to schools with in-person classes. the decision was announced after the launch of a legal challenge mounted by high-profile universities and more than a dozen states

council on foreign relations tweeted this having foreign students on u.s. campuses is a great way to make none americans pro-american it's also a great way to introduce them to our ideals and persuade them to stay or take those ideals home we seem now to be intent on turning them away and turning them against us but some also defending the move mark krikorian executive director of the u.s. center for immigration studies tweeted this what would be the point of foreign students being physically in the u.s. if all classes are online unless the real goal is to get a job and or put down roots as part of the scheme to stay permanently well to discuss the impact of studying in the u.s. and what today's announcement means to u.s. power and influence i am joined tonight by dr andrea snicker a member of the german parliament for the conservative c.d.u. party and also here in berlin professor would call you're an economics professor from the u.s. who teaches here in germany gentlemen to both of you welcome to the day mr nick let me start with you if you were one of th

foreign interference reaching and president at levels the u.n. secretary general raises the alarm over the increasing role of foreign powers in the libyan conflict. i'm not matheson this is our desire to live from doha also coming up more than 3000000 americans are confirmed to be infected with coronavirus as the u.s. defends withdrawing from the world health organization. pumping new life into the economy the u.k. government announces $37000000000.00 more for a pandemic would cover a plant. pulling out thousands caught in the flood waters of china's 100 provinces back on high alert after battling the corona virus outbreak. the u.n. secretary general has warned that the conflict in libya has entered a new phase with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels until hugo chavez was addressing a virtual session of the security council on the violence the head of the session russia's foreign minister said he's in talks with his counterparts in turkey about a possible ceasefire this isn't the 1st time that a cease fire has been proposed while

considered i'm peter labelle the past 3 presidential election cycles demonstrate voters are against foreign wars and for a nation building nonetheless both remain high priority for the ruling elite why is this our voters being denied a say in foreign policy and exactly why should u.s. and allied forces day in afghanistan. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh he's a former cia analyst and presidential briefer and in lansing we have steve gerber he is the host of the earth are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump in he time you want and i was ok let me go to you 1st here are mike's discussed a lot in my i have composed a lot of questions of mind reduction let's start without a list and it speaks only so i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the united states remain in afghanistan after the president of the united states running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan we're almost 4 years later we're still there so why are we still there but if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well re

he basically reiterated the the message that was released by the foreign foreign ministry earlier today on friday but he also then said that some officials working in the chengdu consulate had been engaging in activities which do not call the identities and that china has raised this several times with the u.s. and the u.s. is aware of this when he was pushed further on exactly what he meant he didn't give anything to the details the pentagon has confirmed one of its fighter jets into septa on the arabian passenger plane over syria it says the f. 15 conducted a visual inspection of the mahaan airplane from a safe distance to ensure it wasn't a hostile aircraft landed safely in beirut. friday prayers had to take place in turkey's highest sophia for the 1st time in nearly 86 years last week president out of one declared the highest afia a mosque after a court ruled its conversion into a museum had been illegal. and u.s. president donald trump has canceled the main the public in particular venture in june to be held in florida next month because of the corona virus that the state has been

because we can never forget that our foreign policy needs to be american foreign policy. how do we do that for ourselves but in a way that does not create instability, insecurity in the world? because it others are feeling insecure and unstable and threatened, that is not good for us, not in the long term. so finding kind of a new motive for how to operate i think is pretty critical come at a don't think we found it after the collapse of the soviet union. we need to i think reinvigorate some of our international institutions to take into account that the world has changed since 1946, 1947, maybe the 1950s, and how do we do that in a way that is constructive? so i think that's a very important issue.ry clearly, the issue all of us face everyday in our home but the whole world faces the issue of the environment and how we ensure that our home here on earth,, that we don't follow our own nest beyond any kind of recognition. -- foul our nest. we i think for some for most we need to have a conversation about that in the united states becausee i think there's a great deal of di

failing of the controversial grand renaissance dam megaproject on the blue nile has begun i mean his foreign minister says international mediators are attempting to find a truce softer 3 days of fighting with troops from azerbaijan. and celebrations for some prisoners of war in libya 16 of them go home in a swap between the warning sign. we begin with the growing tensions between china and the united states beijing is vowing to retaliate after the u.s. president announced new measures to hold china accountable donald trump has revealed sanctions against chinese officials over the recent national security law and polls in hong kong trumps announcement came after the u.k. beyond chinese tech giant while way from its new high speed more bang network citing concerns about security katrina you begins our coverage with this report from beijing. hong called is known as asia's world city. but the u.s. government says that nickname no longer applies washington has revoked the territory special economic status as punishment for the newly imposed national security law. from now on says the u.s. it will

about 100 foreigners from the u.s. in europe was subscribed amounts or don't believe were given important positions and they enjoyed generous privileges. foreigners were few and far between in china at that time the families of red children received special treatment but also began to integrate into chinese society foreign ones yalit theology our economic situation was relatively good my parents got a higher salary then their chinese colleagues say you are an idiot or you're sure it's always you know. most of the red children and their families were provided with accommodation in the form of dormitories or rooms in what was called the friendship hotel in beijing. compared with chinese people the foreigners enjoyed good treatment but they were still subject to the control of the communist party and faced restrictions on moving freely to different provinces and choosing their jobs. read children attended local schools and receive the same education as chinese children they soon became fluent in chinese. shallot the each

both remain high priorities for the ruling elite why is this our voters being denied a say in foreign policy and exactly why should u.s. and allied forces day in afghanistan. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh he's a former cia analyst and presidential reverse are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump in he time you want and i was ok let me go to you 1st here i just discussed a lot in my i have composed a lot of questions of mind reduction but let's start with afghanistan is speak slowly so i can understand in our viewers going to send why does the united states remain in afghanistan after the president of the united states running on a campaign a campaign trying to get out of afghanistan we're almost 4 years later we're still there so why are we still there if you will obama was going to get out of afghanistan as well remember it was a dumb war. well that the answer short answer is that they can't. they're not in control. no presidents have to do so what we call the national security state or deep state requires and if you look a

the foreigner. so so coming on to 67 onwards there is a great witch hunt. susanna a friend of michael's was born in beijing to a chinese father and an american actress. her father. had been born in the u.s. to chinese expectorants and became a leading expert in metallurgy in 1950 he went to help with the establishment of the new china and became the director of an important research laboratory. because you had to pay you came from the us and had an american wife he was criticized by a rebel faction within the laboratory and he was violently denounced. in 1988 he was held captive for a year in a cabin near the laboratory although he was the director he was not permitted to continue his work instead he was ordered to clean the toilets. after his release he had to pay was diagnosed with late stage cancer but he continued writing his research papers trying to contribute what he could to china's progress as a suspected counter-revolutionary he was denied treatment and eventually died. you know what. chin

foreign policy he's just finished a new book designed to help bolster the literacy of americans about the world beyond their shores appropriately titled the world good to be with you richard richard you recently wrote a critique of secretary might pompei o s speech at the nixon library and in it you said he misunderstood history he misunderstood what nixon and kissinger were trying to do with china at that time tell us more. good to be with you steve the secretary of state suggested that the engagement policy with china had because it didn't bring about a china that was more open and liberal politically or economically and when i argued is that was never the intention that was never the goal of the policy aim to change chinese foreign policy to work with china against the common enemy of the soviet union and in fact it succeeded we won the cold war on terms even enough to miss would have would have had difficulty coming up. but isn't it partially true that in later steps like bringing china into the world trade organization bringing it into various international institutions the thoug

given it to them and what that would mean for not just their health but their life. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: it is a unique and terrible situation many essential workers across the country deal with every day. those working quietly in the shadows, keeping our country running in the midst of a pandemic, while they are left exposed and vulnerable. why are minorities and communities of color more vulnerable? >> the health care disparities that whether you're a small city or you're a large city are ubiquitous. and that has to do with people who are in vulnerable positions due to their low-wage jobs in which they don't have job security, they don't have trusted relationships with employers. there is the multi-generational household situation. >> reporter: so many are forced to weigh the fears of once again contracting the virus while providing for their families or stay home and cease to earn a living. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: now over four months into the pandemic, at least 40 states are noting a surge in hospitalizations. a clear picture is emerging

america has a problem right now when it comes to a lot of foreign policy thinking foreign policy operations foreign policy diplomacy in the a lot of countries all simply waiting until november to make any decision it seems to me that we've been talking to a lot of different people and they both said to us well let's see what happens in the elections in december beef in november before we make any decisions about how we negotiate with the u.s. that can't be good for us as foreign policy right it is not good for us for both but it was for. miserably in any number of areas but president trying ministration and we have seen disappointing discouraging and distressing us or treat in afghanistan syria libya a failure to maintain u.s. values and support for promoting stability and security for people and justice freedom and what we've seen instead is that the interest of the ground here i don't think that's an accident i think that's part of the pro. the problem international actors generally a part the problem now the g.n.a.t. you'll government you know how it is backed by international backers bu

legitimate foreign cooperation happens all the time all over the world. there is a way you do that and you coordinate with law enforcement in the country that the person that is in. that is not what fox hunt is. these people are engaged in ,ogue law enforcement unsanctioned, uncoordinated with law enforcement in the u.s.. that really exposes what this is about which is about suppressing dissent and trying to pressure dissidents. makeat can countries do to this response to chinese questionable conduct more urgent and more of an actual deterrent to china? dir. wray: the more we can communicate collectively nations around the world that we welcome competition, we welcome academic exchange, we welcome travel, but -- ipt i theft is not ok. corporate espionage is not ok. it's about the behavior. the more we can communicate that part of participating in a global economy is playing by the rules that other nations played by. law and to the rule of international norms that civilized countries respect, the chineseefully the government will adjust its behavior to und

the united nations warning on the libyan conflict foreign interference has.